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At 4:31 PM -0400 4/9/02, Liebig, Steuart A. wrote: >** sure, but bach and earlier composers (like vivaldi, etc.) used >block chords for their choral music. It makes particular sense that chorales would be largely homophonic, making it easier for a congregation to sing and keeping florid polyphonic complexities from obscuring the text. Of course Bach turned even that relatively "serviceable" form into sophisticated art. Although I think it's interesting to trace artistic developments and say that "so-and-so" did "such-and-such" and influenced "what's-his-face," one thing I've noticed is that creative artists (and other thinkers) often come up with ideas that subsequently lie fallow. Sometimes these ideas are found again and serve as inspiration to others; sometimes they are independently invented by others and have to be considered as precursors rather than as direct influences. Trying to figure out which is which is part of the fun of scholarship, and it can lead either to great aesthetic revelations or to interminable and pointless arguments. It's not always easy to figure out which is which. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz